Is Turkish the same as Uzbek?

Uzbek is a member of the sprawling Turkic-language family, which comprises around three dozen members in six major branches. As in any human family, there are varying degrees of affinity: If Uzbek and Turkish are cousins, Uzbek and Uyghur, which is spoken in western China, are fraternal twins.

What is the root language of Farsi?

Farsi has roots in the West Iranian group of languages that includes other languages spoken in the region such as Tajik and Dari. West Iran is one of the two subgroups of the Indo-Iranian family of languages.

What are the Turkic languages?

The Turkic languages are a group of languages spoken across Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia and Siberia. Turkic languages are spoken as native languages by some 170 million people.

What are the different types of Persian languages?

There are three modern varieties of standard Persian: Western Persian (Persian, Iranian Persian, or Farsi) is spoken in Iran, and by minorities in Iraq and the Persian Gulf states. Dari (Dari Persian, Afghan Persian, or Dari) is spoken in Afghanistan. Tajiki (Tajik Persian) is spoken in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

What language do the Meskhetian Turks speak?

Dialects. The Meskhetian Turks who live in Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Russia as well as in several Central Asian countries, also speak an Eastern Anatolian dialect of Turkish, originating in the areas of Kars, Ardahan, and Artvin and sharing similarities with Azerbaijani, the language of Azerbaijan.

Is Hazaragi a Dari dialect?

Hazaragi has never had a mainstream written form and its grammatical structure is pretty much that of common Farsi Dari. There is almost universal consensus among academics both anthropologists and linguists, who state that Hazaragi is a dialect of Persian or better say Afghan Persian a.k.a Dari.